architect and an engineer, since everything he touches and designs immediately takes on an elegant beautiful form while he finds brilliant solutions to resistance and manufacturing.” Renzo Piano describes the lesson of Prouve, “the fundamental truth that one must not separate the head and the hand, the idea and the means of realizing it, that architecture is a matter of building, not drawing, and that it must be a deep understanding of materials that gives rise to its forms...” Prouve faced a fight and questioned the traditional modes of construction and the conventional materials. His aim was to achieve the highest degree of economy in materials and means to meet the needs of the largest possible number of people. He explored furniture design and such significant projects of the era as mass-housing. Prouve considered himself of the times but in reality he was too advanced for his time. He actually developed a hybrid; using the most advanced technologies with a craftsman way of designing. For this reason, Jean Prouve remains a significant representative and initiator of modern architecture in the 20th century. A man of action more than of rhetoric, throughout his life he applied his own solution, “be a man of the times and uncompromising” ...
